Blood Lust: A Rehearsed Reading

Scotland, November 1901. Alexander Browning appears at Sinclair Hall with a cursed Greek artefact, a human heart and an angry eldritch nightmare hot on her heels. Lord Victor Sinclair, the recluse who sponsored the artefact’s recovery, is the only living person who might know how to help. What happens when a bad influence meets a worse one?

Blood Lust is a three-hander gothic-cosmic horror that blends eldritch dread with piercing emotional intimacy. Beneath the creeping terror lies a darker question: how monstrous do we feel when love demands honesty? When being truly known feels more frightening than any nightmare?

Presented as a rehearsed reading, this special performance offers audiences the chance to encounter a new work in its raw, dangerous form – and helps support One Man Poe at Edinburgh Fringe 2026.

4-time OFFIE Award-winning company, for ‘Dog/Actor’; ‘The Black Cat’; ‘Father Unknown’ and ‘Paved with Gold and Ashes’

2x Standing Ovation Award nominations, for ‘Harry’s Christmas’ and ‘Fire Embers Ash’

Winner of ‘Best Overall Show’ at Edinburgh Fringe 2025 from The Derek Awards, for ‘One Man Poe’

Winner of ‘Best Horror Solo Show’ at Edinburgh Fringe 2024 from The Spookies Awards, for ‘One Man Poe’

Sell-Out Show of Edinburgh Fringe 2024, for ‘One Man Poe’

Sell-Out Show of Edinburgh Fringe 2025, for ‘One Man Poe’ and ‘A Montage of Monet’

Written by MacKenzie Mellen.

Starring: MacKenzie Mellen, Andrew Macmillan, Daniel Hall and Dominic Brewer

Threedumb Theatre is a four-time OFFIE award-winning company creating bold, intimate, actor-led work. Led by Stephen Smith, their productions range from critically acclaimed solo adaptations such as One Man Poe — hailed as “the quintessential stage adaptation” of Edgar Allan Poe — to new writing, like Paved with Gold and Ashes, A Montage of Monet and Fire Embers Ash. Threedumb’s work has toured nationally and internationally, and continues to champion theatrical imagination in its most stripped-back, powerful form.